Re: Game problems

Yes. I follow the instructions. But I get let down right from the
beginning. The setup never starts. I think this is just hopeless. I just
don't understand how the 7th Guest never gave me any problems. this one is
horrible :( I can't get anything to work.

"Jimmy S." wrote:

Hi Slemmenes,

Are you following the installation instructions provided on the Inferno site?

Slemmenes Wrote:
=================
| Well that's a blonde for ya. OK I downloaded the patch. My problem though
| is when you insert the disc and run go.bat. The setup never starts. The
| screen goes black like something will happen and it kicks be back to the
| desktop right away. First actually it gives me options because it says this
| disk contains more than one type of file and it tells me to choose where to
| run it from. Media player, and other places that are no help. Is this
| supposed to happen?
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Slemmenes,
||
|| I went to that page that was linked to from the earthlink site.
|| I don't know why it was no help to you, it has a link to the patch.
|| There are three download locations (Mirror's) to chose from.
||
|| Slemmenes Wrote:
|| =================
||| No, I'm sorry it wasn't chris's page or the google search. That didn't lead
||| me to much either though. I have played the 7th Guest with no problems on
||| this computer. The 11th Hour is giving me grief. I went to some link, the
||| earthlink one, to figur out this patch thing. I click on another link and I
||| can't download or save this patch. First I do this...
||| http://www.home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet1/XpSetUpWalkthroughsA_E/11thHr_Setup.htm
||| Then I click on a link to get the patch and get this.
||| http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dlp.cgi?lang=eng&sys=pc&file=11h242.zip&ref=ps
||| no help to me.
|||
|||
|||
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Slemmenes,
||||
|||| When you say you tried to go to Chris's page, do you mean Google?
|||| If so, were you unable to find any sources for that file in your search?
||||
|||| Slemmenes Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I tried to go to Chris' page and do the patch. It gives a link to the patch
||||| but there's nowhere to click to save it or download it or whatever. Am I
||||| just easily confused? I put the disk in I do the whole go.bat and nothing
||||| happens. My screen turns black for a second and then it goes back to the
||||| desktop. There's no specific icon that would lead to believe it is the icon
||||| for the game. Does that make sense?
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi Slemmenes,
||||||
|||||| 7th Guest and 11th Hour have a lot of fans who play it using XP. This article:
|||||| http://pub44.ezboard.com/ftheseventhguestandeleventhhourfrm1.showMessage?topicID=236.topic shares some of the techniques
|||||| they use to run it successfully.
||||||
|||||| Here's the complete setup walkthrough as written by "inferno":
|||||| http://home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet1/XpSetUpWalkthroughsA_E/7thGuest_Setup.htm
||||||
|||||| Chris H recommends "going to www.google.com and doing a search for files
|||||| t7g*.zip and 11h242.zip. These are updates for 7th Guest and 11th Hour which
|||||| are quite helpful.".
||||||
|||||| Here's some general supplemental information which you should find useful ;-) ...
|||||| 11th Hour has been made to work using Windows 2000 compatibility mode:
|||||| How to use Compatibility Mode: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292533
||||||
|||||| or try using the Multiboot bootdisk from: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html .
||||||
|||||| With DOSBOX you can emulate a DOS computer on your XP desktop:
|||||| http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php
||||||
|||||| If you prefer to explore other advanced methods, here are two of the best
|||||| tutorials I've found on the subject: http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php
|||||| and: http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm :-)
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
||||||
|||||| Slemmenes Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| Ok I have Windows XP and the game I have, "the 11th Hour", was made a few
||||||| years ago and I believe can only be played with DOS or 95/98. So I tried to
||||||| start this game and obviously I can't. Is there a way I can? It's starting
||||||| to frustrate me. I've read some things about patches. Do I need to find
||||||| one? How do I do it? I've looked on lists and my game isn't on them. What
||||||| else can I try?



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